Clinical News: Page 2353

Portable DR gets rockers back into the mosh pit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The use of a portable digital radiography (DR) system at a major U.K. music festival helped emergency personnel triage patients and send back to the event many music fans who otherwise might have been referred to a local hospital.
August 5, 2009
Varian lands U.K. order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has received an order from Barts and the London NHS Trust in the U.K.
August 5, 2009
Sonora expands probe repair service
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging equipment supplier Sonora Medical Systems has added to its ultrasound probe repair capabilities.
August 5, 2009
Congress hears testimony on VA brachytherapy scandal
By Brian Casey
August 5, 2009
Congress eyes safety of VA prostate brachytherapy: Part 1
By Cynthia E. Keen
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has suspended prostate brachytherapy programs at nearly half of the VA medical centers performing the procedure, VA representatives told members of U.S. Congress last month in hearings held to investigate allegations of shoddy work at a VA facility in Philadelphia.
August 5, 2009
Intense x-rays expose Alzheimer's disease
By Richard Stevenson
A challenge in Alzheimer's disease treatment is that conventional tools such as MRI cannot resolve the micrometer-sized changes in the brain associated with the illness. However, these tiny features can now be identified with diffraction-enhanced imaging, with the potential to delivery early diagnosis, according to U.S. researchers.
August 5, 2009
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Philips inks ultrasound gene therapy research deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare sister company Philips Research has signed a joint research agreement with gene therapy developer GlyGenix Therapeutics.
August 4, 2009
Neuroblastoma patients face chronic health risks
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A survey of almost 1,000 adults who received treatment as young children for neuroblastoma between 1970 and 1986 and survived their illness revealed that 41.1% had experienced one or more chronic health conditions later in life.
August 4, 2009
iCAD installs MRI CAD in New York
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) firm iCAD has installed its VividLook CAD analysis software at an MRI center operated by DRA Imaging in Poughkeepsie, NY.
August 4, 2009
NeuroLogica's CereTom gets Brazil OK
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Portable scanner developer NeuroLogica has received marketing clearance for its CereTom scanner from ANVISA, the National Health Surveillance Agency in Brazil.
August 4, 2009
FDA OKs Carestream DR system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Carestream DRX-Evolution.
August 4, 2009
IAEA study finds that interventional dose may be too high
By Brian Casey
Many patients at hospitals in developing countries may be getting too much radiation dose during interventional radiology and cardiology procedures, according to a study sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and published in the August issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
August 4, 2009
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